Steve Andrews

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Tent
Whether you'll use it to tackle the Pacific Crest Trail or initiate your kids with a backyard campout, the right tent will affect your enjoyment of the outdoors. It’s not uncommon to have a variety of them in the garage for different situations.
Some of the most cathartic moments you experience during multi-day wilderness escapes happen when you slip into your sleeping bag beneath the stars.
There isn’t ...

If you’re paying attention to the Universe, you might’ve noticed that time, events, and energy exist in cycles. At the beginning of the most recent 12-month cycle, we still had concerts, travel was a thing, and the idea of social distancing was relegated to the few of us who isolated by choice.
And then there’s the concept of things coming full circle, which I’ve certainly experienced recently. I write this article while passing “GO” in a ritual started with a call from The Inertia in 2016, a...

In 1858, a British Surgeon named James Hector crossed the Continental Divide with a group of colonizers surveying potential railway routes within the Canadian Rockies. While trying to rescue one of his pack horses that fell into the river, Hector’s own horse kicked him in the chest and knocked him unconscious. Legend has it that other party members thought Hector had been killed and began to dig a riverside grave. Luckily for Hector, he came to in time. Thus was the impetus for naming the riv...

Leaving the world a better place; it’s a value shared among people of every culture. Each person’s definition of that is as varied as their personalities. But that simple guiding principle has been enough to start movements, liberate societies and even, make another person smile. In Polynesia, a landmass of roughly 1000 islands dispersed across the Pacific Ocean, these efforts are often made by interacting with the ocean that surrounds them. But over the past hundred years the rich ocean heri...

The story of the foundations for the Karamoja Mountain Biking Association, a new club in northern Uganda that was created to empower the citizens to develop their mountain as a tourism destination. Furthermore they can use bikes for added mobility and productivity to help connect the rural villages through trails.

This season marks my 25th year snowboarding and I still feel like I’m just discovering what it’s all about.
Like most I got my start at a resort. As a teenager, I made the switch over from skiing in a paradoxical act that included equal servings of rebellion from what I thought was the elitist skier industrial complex, and conformity to seek acceptance from the pack of other teenage boys flocking to the punk rock attitude of snowboarding.
As my skill progressed, so too did my obsession for fr...

Promotional video for Canadian Wilderness Adventures in Whistler, BC. This was completed in a 24 hour turnaround and limited budget.

I was responsible for producing this piece from concept to completion.

Music video from The Colour Coast out of Los Angeles, California. For more information on the band visit thecolourcoast.bandcamp.com/
Directed by Steve Andrews
Edited by Mark Doyle and Steve Andrews
Additional Footage by Joe Romero

There are people who make an effort, and then there are people who go above and beyond to lead by example. Even if he didn’t have a massive following on social media and enough ski movie credits to be mentioned among the greatest ever, Mark Abma would still be doing his thing, working to make the world around him better than he found it.
The jet-set pro skier life is full of contradictions. On one hand everyone wants a cold, snowy winter, however, it takes fossil fuels to get to these incredi...

While standing at the top of the line my mood shoots from overconfidence to a swarm of butterflies swirling in my stomach. Up until this point I thought it would be easy but now, with the board under my feet, I feel like a beginner again. That’s because I am: even though I have been snowboarding for 20 years, the board was always firmly attached to my feet. Now, looking down at the 1,000 or so foot run in knee-deep powder, I’m about to drop in for my first-ever powder surfing run.
I step onto...

In the quest to optimize the body to perform at its best, one of the most lasting and productive ways to do this is by controlling the fuel that goes into your body. In other words, diet is everything. Over the years people have tuned into many different diet styles, each with certain benefits and drawbacks. Two such methods, Keto and Paleo, have received a lot of attention lately in fitness circles. While often times the two have much overlap into what you can and cannot eat, they are fundam...

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